Posted on 01/07/2005 12:32:37 AM PST by hope
to vaporize Mecca?
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Friday, January 7, 2005
Has U.S. threatened Posted: January 7, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Why hasn't Osama bin Laden's terror network executed an attack on U.S. soil since 9-11?
Simple, says Dr. Jack Wheeler, creator of an acclaimed intelligence website dubbed "the oasis for rational conservatives": The U.S. has threatened to nuke the Muslim holy city of Mecca should the terror leader strike America again.
On his website, To the Point, Wheeler explains how the Bush administration has identified the potential of wiping Mecca off the map as bin Laden's ultimate point of vulnerability the Damoclean Sword hanging over his head.
"Israel recognizes that the Aswan Dam is Egypt's Damoclean Sword," writes Wheeler. "There is no possibility whatever of Egypt's winning a war with Israel, for if Aswan is blown, all of inhabited Egypt is under 20 feet of water. Once the Israelis made this clear to the Egyptians, the possibility of any future Egyptian attack on Israel like that of 1948, 1967, and 1972 is gone."
Wheeler says talk of bin Laden's Damoclean Sword has infiltrated the Beltway.
Writes Wheeler in his members-only column: "There has been a rumor floating in the Washington ether for some time now that George Bush has figured out what Sword of Damocles is suspended over Osama bin Laden's head. It's whispered among Capitol Hill staffers on the intel and armed services committees; White House NSC (National Security Council) members clam up tight if you begin to hint at it; and State Department neo-cons love to give their liberal counterparts cardiac arrhythmia by elliptically conversing about it in their presence.
"The whispers and hints and ellipses are getting louder now because the rumor explains the inexplicable: Why hasn't there been a repeat of 9-11? How can it be that after this unimaginable tragedy and Osama's constant threats of another, we have gone over three years without a single terrorist attack on American soil?"
Available only to subscribers of To the Point, Wheeler ends his column by explaining the effectiveness of the Mecca threat.
"Completely obliterating the terrorists' holiest of holies, rendering what is for them the world's most sacred spot a radioactive hole in the ground is retribution of biblical proportions and those are the only proportions that will do the job.
"Osama would have laughed off such a threat, given his view that Americans are wussies who cut and run after a few losses, such as Lebanon in 1983 and Somalia in 1993. Part of Bush's rationale for invading Afghanistan and Iraq obviously never expressed publicly was to convince Osama that his threat to nuke Mecca was real. Osama hates America just as much as ever, but he is laughing no more."
Wheeler says bin Laden is "playing poker with a Texas cowboy holding the nuclear aces," so there's nothing al-Qaida could do that could come remotely close to risking obliterating Mecca.
Writes Wheeler: "So far, Osama has decided not to see if GW is bluffing. Smart move."
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The idea of nuking mecca is something that must be on the table simply by virtue of the fact it is something muslims would not expect us to do.
As for some saying it would unite the muslims against us---they already are.
I bet he typed this in a running suit and black tennis shoes.
Nuking Mecca has been a possibility for two countries,
the US and Israel.
If we felt the need to do it I believe that we would do it with little fanfare. Mecca and possibly Medinah would simply disappear.
Push the Jews into the sea? Sure you can, but only after all your other holy cities and sites become the bottom of craters.
And I would approve.
Don't need to nuke Mecca. A 2,000 lb cruise would do the job. Another on Medina and a 500lb on Jerusalem. Remove the 3 holiest sites and destroy the basis for their faith!
I'm all for it!
Note: A nuke just reduces the number of American haters. That is not a bad solution, but without their basis for faith, they most likely will do what they do best --- Kill one another!
Webmaster: what happened to 171-174? Were they that good?? I dont see any bumps..... selling the ideas to Condi???
That stuff was up for a minute or two.... please give it back - it was a good followup to broadsword.....
now i am sorry i refreshed.... and that i trusted this blog to keep info posted...
I wonder if that could actually make it smell worse?
Nope, we need to keep Jerusalem in good condition so we can finally set up our embassy.
"Nuking Mecca won't accomplish anything, except alienate almost all the Muslims in the world"
A well placed neutron bomb would do wonders, creating a living radioactive signpost. As I recall all Muslims are supposed to visit Mecca once in their lives. We could even issue travel vouchers.
There is a little problem with the Arabs highjacking sites of other religions. The Al Aqsba temple where Mohammed alledgely departed needs to be leveled.
The Crusaders took it over and turned it into stables or something because it is thought to be part of Solomon's temple, they didn't raze it.
So, bulldoze it, burn it, wreck it, destroy it...
I don't care!
Even if a rumor, the Middle East has always and ONLY respected and feared great power.
I've met a few moderate muslims and none of them condone these activities you've described. As a matter of fact, they've condemned the militant muslims who do condone such things.
There are 1.6 billion muslims world-wide. If they were all as you've described, we wouldn't be here discussing this issue.
I don't know if this is true or not, but I think it's a pretty good idea. We can't threaten the cities or countries of these militant animals because they don't have any and/or don't care about them. So we've got to threaten them someway. And this sounds about as good as anything.
But I've got to believe that if we've made this threat, we would have heard about it by now from whomever we delievered the threat too?
And we shouldn't forget Medina......
Well, we don't have a fully operation missile defense system.
Anyway, so what if we can wipe China off the map? Are you willing to role the nuclear dice with regards to North Korea knowing that one of the possible outcomes is 100 million or so dead Americans?
Nuking Mecca should have already happened, but better now than later. First messages should be sent to Iran's Mullahs, Syria, North Korea and the janitor at the Dome of the Rock - "YOU ARE NEXT"!
Please. Come back to the real world. In the real world, when you destroy someone's holiest religious site, they tend to turn against you, not convert to your religion.
Thankfully, the President and his advisors are smarter than the nucular cowboys on FR.
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